# Please explain these soccer team names to an ignorant American

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**Created:** [March 30, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-these-soccer-team-names-to-an-ignorant-american/534284 "2010-03-30T01:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-these-soccer-team-names-to-an-ignorant-american/534284/81 "2014-05-16T23:03:15Z")

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> [@Celyn](#):
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> Here’s a football team name that I coincidentally learned about yesterday. It is called “Third Lanark” and I have previously wondered why, along the lines of “what about first and second Lanark? And surely three football teams would be too many for a not-very-big town?” But now I know that it was originally the football team of Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
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> I suppose now I could go on to wonder about the team called “Queen of the South”, but, nah, that would be too much football for one day.

The only British football team named in the Bible:

**Matthew 12,42** “The Queen of the South will rise up…”.

Having spent what seems like forever in the bottom reaches of the Scottish League they were in the play-offs which could have put them in The Premiership.

Bible prophecies that amost came true…

[A stroll through the eccentric names of Scottish football teams.](http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2009/09/30/a-stroll-through-the-eccentric-names-of-scottish-football-teams/)

Then try ‘The Bully Wee’ and ‘The Blue Brazil’.

“too much football for one day.” What does that mean? 😕

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**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-these-soccer-team-names-to-an-ignorant-american/534284/82 "2014-05-16T23:20:43Z")

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> [@penultima\_thule](#):
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> … from the country that also has the [All Whites](http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/) and the [Tall Blacks](http://www.basketball.org.nz/national-teams/tall-blacks/)

Of course, there was also the Black Cocks:

> **[NZ finds Black Cocks hard to swallow](https://www.theregister.com/2005/09/15/nz_badminton_kerfuffle/)**
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> Chinese not too keen, either

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-these-soccer-team-names-to-an-ignorant-american/534284/83 "2014-05-17T04:57:37Z")

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I prefer the name FC Zombie Brains myself.

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**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-these-soccer-team-names-to-an-ignorant-american/534284/84 "2014-05-17T17:48:37Z")

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> [@mascaroni](#):
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> Doris Stokes has got nothing on you…

Jasper Carrott quote. If a fan you may remember than episode of The Detectives where they are trying to remember the 19 surnames of English clubs. Damn, now I shall have to try to think them up without looking.

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